My all time favorite '50's show was Paladin.
The Man From Uncle....great show!
My all time favorite '50's show was Paladin.
The Man From Uncle....great show!
When the government's boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence. — GARY LLOYD
The nation we live in is the nation we have built by design, each successive generation raising the wall of tyranny a little higher. - Chris Griffin
Oh yeah... "Have Gun Will Travel" is an all time favorite of mine. I also like The Rifleman.Originally Posted by W5GA
I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.
Speaking of vintage TV...
You did know that most of the kinescope recordings of the shows from the DuMont Network are lost, didn't you?
It was the first TV network. But it had financial and legal problems of a whole variety of sorts. After they ceased operating, the company changed hands & names multiple times... and the recordings were stored in a warehouse. During one of the legal tussels amongst the succesor companies in the early 1970's, the issue of who was going to continue to pay for the storage came up. The story goes that one of the lawyers offered to "take care of it" -- and the recordings were put on a garbage scow & dumped (either out at sea or in the East River, I've heard it both ways) and lost.
Ironically, the core of the DuMont network still exists today. Their original flagship, WDTV-TV Channel 3 Pittsburgh, was sold to Westinghouse, and today is KDKA-TV Channel 2. Their NYC station, WABD TV, later became WNEW Channel 5, and the flagship of the Metromedia owned independant stations (of Soupy Sales fame amongst many others). The Metromedia stations were bought by News Corporation, and became the core of the "new" Fox Network. (WNEW is now WNYW, a call with it's own colorful history).
“Nobody is going to feel sorry for us. 90% of the people don’t care, the other 10% are glad it happened.” — Clint Hurdle, 2019
BAN THE DH!
Fudd's First Law of Opposition: If you push something hard enough, it WILL fall down.
Teslacle's Deviant to Fudd's Law: It goes in, it must go out.
"The 2020 election wasn't stolen, and speaking the truth is only a crime in countries ruled by tyrants" - Liz Cheney
“Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Trump golfed.” — Bernie Sanders
Never have seen the first. The Rifleman has stood the test of time. It was very well done and have many good values to have and hold. Connors was a great actor and the writers made a great weekly story.
I grew up watching WNEW. Soupy Sales, Sandy Becker and Sonny Fox. Even when I started to outgrow it, Soupy would corral Little Anthony and the Imperials and later The Rolling Stones, The Hollies and The Yardbirds. He'd have groups that nobody else would (rock was the devil's music back then - or a Commie Plot). Then they had the horror movies. Just when you thought you saw the cheesiest movie of your life, they'd put one even worse the next week...
Best was the movies though.
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
--Philip K. Dick
When I hear the name DuMont Network, Jackie Gleason and the Honeymooners comes to mind. The only hit show DuMont really had.
[SIGPIC] 73
We have B&W episodes of Gunsmoke on speed-dial here at the ranch.
Effin' Matt Dillon. Doesn't get much better than that.
Yes. "Have Gun will Travel". I only saw it in reruns, but it was very cool.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. I got Christmas toys based on that show. I wish I still had them.
I really liked "Maverick", again only seen in reruns in the 70's.
"Who was the tall dark stranger there, Maverick was his name".
I noticed in the grocery store today that James Garner has made National Enquirer's "sad last days" headline.
[QUOTE=N2NH;510314 Sandy Becker [/QUOTE]
Couldn't find the Bert Kaempfert opening...
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